Over the years, many have tried to solve the 340-character message received by the San Francisco Chronicle on October 14, 1969. The researchers–including David Oranchak, a computer programmer in Roanoke, Virginia Sam Blake, an applied mathematician at the University of Melbourne and Jarl van Eycke, a Belgian codebreaker and warehouse worker–had all tried, unsuccessfully, to break the Zodiac’s 340-character code before joining forces in 2018, according to the Discover Magazine story. Much of the work of cracking the code was done in Mathematica, the statistics package from Wolfram.Īccording to Discover Magazine, which wrote about the effort in a story published in its January/February 2022 issue, three researchers successfully cracked one of the messages attributed to the Zodiac killer, who authorities believe killed at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area more than 50 years ago. The Zodiac's 340-character message resisted decryption for 51 yearsĬryptographic researchers have finally cracked a 51-year-old code left by the Zodiac, a serial killer who terrorized Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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